Designation | Symbol / Emblem |
Beverage | Milk |
Bird | Blue Hen Chicken (University of Delaware) |
Bug | Lady Bug |
Butterfly | Tiger Swallowtail (Pterourus glaucus) |
Colors | Colonial Blue and Buff |
Flag | Flag of Delaware |
Fish | Weakfish (Cynoscion genus) |
Floral Emblem | Peach Blossom |
Flower | Peach Blossom |
Fossil | Belemnite (Ancestor of the modern squid.) |
Herb | Sweet Golden Rod (Solidago odora) |
Macroinvertebrate | Stonefly (Order Plecoptera) |
Marine Animal | Horseshoe Crab |
Mineral | Sillimanite |
Soil | Greenwich loam* (a course, loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic, Typic Hapludult) |
Song | Our Delaware by George B. Hynson and Donn Devine, music by Will M. S. Brown |
Star | Delaware Diamond, located in the constellation of Ursa Major (Great Bear). |
Tree | American Holly (Aquifoliaceae Ilex opaca) |